Ephesians 6:2
"Honour your father and your mother" --this is the first Commandment which has a promise added to it--
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
In Context
1Children, be obedient to your parents as a Christian duty, for it is a duty.
3"so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth."
Cross References
Matthew 15:4For God said, `Honour thy father and thy mother'; and `Let him who reviles father or mother be certainly put to death';
Romans 13:7Pay promptly to all men what is due to them: taxes to those to whom taxes are due, toll to those to whom toll is due, respect to those to whom respect is due, honour to those to whom honour is due.
Matthew Henry on Ephesians 6:2-10
Duties of Children to Parents; Duties of Servants to Masters. ( a. d. 61.) 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. 2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) 3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. 4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. 5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in… Read the whole commentary →